The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

street industry.
MRS. CLEVELAND will be twenty-three
years old July 81.
1T is said Of Cuba that every thing lis
taxed there except the air.
DooR-KNoB lanterns on which is the mum
Der Of your house are new.
WALTER MURRAY GIBSON is the name Of
King Kalakaua's right hand man.
GOVERNOR TORRES, of Sonora, offers 500
each for heads of Apache Indians.
ST. LOUIS has now twenty-four condemn
ed and accused murderers in her Jail.
FIVE thousand hogsheads of tobacco
were burned in a Louisville fire the other
day.
Missouri heads the list in the condition
Of the wheat crop, showing full 100 per
cent.
1T is estimated that there are sixty
thousand colored Knights of Labor in the
South.
A DAUGHTER Of Senator Enstis, of Louisi.
ana, is the best horseback rider in Wash
ington.
The Rochester advertiser offers Henry
George farIu, if he will move on it and
go to work
OF 1888 "superfiuous women" in Mas
sachusetts more than eighty five per cent.
are widows.
A RECENT writer on China puts the pop
ulation Of the Empire at four hundred and
fifty million.
CARLYLE's old house at Chelsea, visited
by many tourists, is in a scandalous state
Of dilapidation.
A VICAR in England has greatly distin-
lnl 10.
child Jubilee"
ENGLISH children are to be pitied this
year. Some of the new ones are being
named Jubiletta.
FIVE hundred more acres have been
planted to watermelons in the South this
year than in 1886.
THE New York Legislature passed bill
requiring life-saving rope to be placed
in every hotel room.
AN old rusty Barlow knife has been
found in quarry near Greenup, KY, i'm
bedded in solid rock.
Mr. WESTINGHOUSE, Of air-brake fame,
has taken out about twelve hundred pat
ents of various kinds.
Mr.. PARNELL does not improve in health,
and it is now said that he is suffering from
cancer of the stomach.
PLYMOUTH Church, Brooklyn, will be
shut for the summer. No such thing ever
happened TO it before.
ASTRONOMY has new term in its nomen.
clature. A New York Sunday is now
known as a side-dooreal day.
The New York Tribune says "the selling
Of the toy pistol to children ought to be
made an indictable offense."
MRS. MARK HOPKINS is building g.
00O, 600 residence in Massachusetts. She
will have SIS, 0OO, 900 left to hire servants.
GOVERNOR HILL has signed bill making
it unlawful for railroads in New York
State to use stoves in passenger cars after
May, 1888.
PROF. F. N CROUCH, composer of "Kath-
leen Mavourneen," who is eighty-seven
years old, is the author of twenty-seven
children.
JAY GOULD recently purchased thirty
three acres of valuable land at Mt. Vernon
and made the regents of that institution u
present Of it,
JACK SHAW, of Shamokin, Pa, vowed not
TO wear coat while a Democratic Admin
istration was at the helm, and so far he has
kept the VOW.
PHILADELPHIA is annoyed because the
honest face of Ben Franklin is put on the
new one-cent postage stamps. They think
Ben amounts to more than cent.
: THE wife of John Murray, a Beaver Falls
pa blacksmith, whose luck was hard,
learned TO help him at the forge, and
is now as good blacksmith as he is.
: The ghost of Mrs. Roxalana Druse, the
woman who was hung recently in New
York State, for killing her husband is
said to return to earth in the early morn.
ing.
! Six carts and twenty men have for six
weeks been engaged in cutting and haul.
ing branches from Washington shade trees
that are white with the cocoons Of the
tent caterpillar
: A NEW York Judge has decided that a
tenants lease covers the outside walls Of
the building as well as the in side, and that
he has right to use the former for ad.
vertising purposes.
! The women of the British Empire have
just shown that they are not lacking in
charitable impulses. Three million of
them have contributedto fund of Sa5O. 900
for Queen Victoria. 1t is a jubilee pres.
emit.
APTER spending long season in Europe
Fred Douglass says he is ''coming homo
with the knowledge that the average man
in the United States Is better fed, clothed
and sheltered than in any other pat OF
the world"
CoNNEcTICuT's strict Sunday laws have
been stopping all railroad trains, but tho
State railroad commissioners have issued
an order allowing passenger trains TO run
between the hours Of 10 a. IN. and D. m.
on Sunday.
JAMES REDHRAD and Harry Anderson
went swimming in Lake Contra paar ~